By Lance Winslow

There is no doubt that auto racing is a very dangerous sport, and the cost to be involved in auto racing just to buy the engines requires sponsorship of very large corporations that can afford those hefty costs. When a racecar engine block cracks or has a problem, oil spews all over the racetrack and it makes it quite dangerous.

Cars spin out very easily, and all the oil coming over the driver's windscreen makes it hard for him (or her) to see, and can cause them to crash. To prevent all this it makes sense to monitor the racecar engines very closely.

Now, there may be a new technology to help with all that and to do it in real time, without having to tear down the engine after every race. In fact, these inspections can be done in seconds during the race when a car comes in for a pit stop. Let me explain this new technology.

Some scientists in Hamburg Germany have found a way to take all aluminum atoms and use micro-lasers to remove electrons. By doing this they create what they call a fourth state of matter, and it makes deal will have translucent or invisible in this case.

Now imagine having an engine block or the head of an engine which was translucent, this would allow immediate inspection of all the major components to see if things are wearing right. It would also allow the mechanics to save time, and pull cars from the race or from practice runs whose engines were about to blow.

This is a huge safety issue and it could save hundreds of thousands of dollars during the racing season. Please consider all this.